Announcing blocSonic!

Programming, blocSonic — mGee @ 8:02 am

Happy new year everyone! It’s been an extremely long time since my last post, but with the new year I’m back with an announcement.

Just launched is my latest project — blocSonic. My first web project using Ruby on Rails. It took a while for me to become “married” to ROR, there were always things I liked about the platform, but at first there were more things that I didn’t like about it. Of course, one of the primary things I didn’t like is the one thing that I love now — the use of command-line throughout development. It’s not that I didn’t like the command line, I actually did quite a bit. It’s just that I was coming from a background in PHP and it seemed like a lazy shortcut to generate your file structure via scripts. It also seemed to add to the learning-curve which also put me off. So in my early exploration of ROR, I also checked out many PHP frameworks that claimed to do for PHP was Rails does for Ruby. After using these PHP frameworks as compared to ROR, it really was a simple decision. There’s absolutely NO PHP framework out there that works like ROR. I’m now a convert. I’ll find it hard to ever go back to PHP.

My only lingering gripe with ROR is the confusion that sets in when trying to figure out how one should deploy an ROR-based website. The Ruby on Rails team really do need to work on DRY’ing that process up.

Anyway… about my project. blocSonic is starting it’s life as a humble blog. Through blocSonic I’ll be releasing monthly/bi-monthly Creative Commons’ released compilations. Available in FLAC, 320kbs MP3 and 192kbs MP3, the comps will feature some of the best music available for free online via netlabels. 10 tracks deep, I focus on quality over quantity. I also focus on diversity. The premier release features the blues, hip-hop, trip-hop, electronic, rock and electro-pop. Every track is extremely addictive. You don’t believe? Go ahead download it and give it a listen. Every release will also boast artwork available in three formats — eps, pdf and tif. Also thrown in is a PDF booklet with full liner-notes.

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